* B.A. (Russian & English), University of British Columbia, 1966
* M.A. (Slavic Studies, magna cum laude), University of British Columbia, 1967
* Ph.D. (Slavic Studies, magna cum laude), University of Helsinki, 1972

* Appointed Corresponding Member, International Academy of Sciences, Pedagogical Division, Moscow, 1997
* Awarded Pushkin Medal, International Association of Professors of Russian Language and Literature, 1998
* Appointed Joint Editor (with J.L. Black of Carleton University), Canada/Russia Series.
* Inducted as Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Academy of the Humanities and Social Sciences), 2001
* Appointed to the Council of the Royal Society of Canada as Foreign Co-Secretary and Co-Chair, Committee on International Relations, 2002
* Appointed Full Member of the Petrovskaja Academy of Arts & Sciences (Petri Primi Academia scientiarum et artium) in St-Petersburg, 2002
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* University of Waterloo (Slavic Studies: Lecturer > Assistant Professor > Associate Professor) 1967-75, 1976-77)
* University of Victoria (Slavonic Studies:Associate Professor) 1975-76, 1977-81
* University of Ottawa (Modern Languages & Literatures: Associate Professor > Professor) 1981- (appointed Full Professor 1986)
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* Member, Editorial Board, Tolstoy Studies Journal, since 1997
* Member, Advisory Board, Canadian Slavonic Papers, since 1998
* Co-ordinator (> Director, 2001), Slavic Research Group at the University of Ottawa, since 1998
* Joint Editor (with J.L. Black) of Canada-Russia Series, since 1999
* Research: Leo Tolstoy and the Canadian Doukhobors (book now published);
* Member, Editorial Board, New Russian Academy of Sciences 100-volume edition of Tolstoy's works.
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* Books authored: 5
* Books edited: 16
* Papers in refereed journals: 41
* Papers in refereed conference proceedings: 2
* Papers read: 44
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* Leo Tolstoy and the Canadian Doukhobors: an historic relationship.  Ottawa: Carleton University Centre for Research on Canadian-Russian Relations, 2005.  xiv+473 pp.
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* L.N. Tolstoj i P.V. Verigin: Perepiska. St-Petersburg: Russian Academy of Sciences / Dmitrij Bulanin, 1995. 105 pp.; also Canadian edition: Leo Tolstoy and Peter Verigin: Correspondence, including an editor's preface and an English translation by John Woodsworth. Ottawa: Legas, 1995. ix+202 pp.
* L.N. Tolstoy i M.P. Novikov: Perepiska [Leo Tolstoy and Mikhail Novikov: Correspondence]. München: Verlag Otto Sagner, 1996. 120 pp.
* L.N. Tolstoy i T.M. Bondarev: Perepiska [Leo Tolstoy and Timofej Bondarev: Correspondence]. München: Verlag Otto Sagner, 1996. 142 pp.
* Lev Tolstoy and the concept of brotherhood (with John Woodsworth).  Ottawa: Legas, 1996.  xiv+228 pp.
* New materials by and on Leo Tolstoy.  München: Verlag Otto Sagner, 1997. 267 pp.
* Sergej Tolstoy and the Doukhobors: a journey to Canada, including an editor's essay and an English translation of Sergej Tolstoy's Diary and correspondence by John Woodsworth.  Ottawa: Slavic Research Group at the University of Ottawa and Moscow: State L.N. Tolstoy Museum, 1998. x+155 pp.
* L.N. Tolstoj i F.A. Zheltov: Perepiska [Leo Tolstoy and Fedor Zheltov: Correspondence] (with an editorial essay).  Ottawa: Slavic Research Group at the University of Ottawa and Moscow: State L.N. Tolstoy Museum, 1999. x+155 pp.; also American edition -- in an English translation by John Woodsworth, edited by Ethel Dunn: A Molokan's search for truth: the correspondence of Leo Tolstoy and Fedor Zheltov.  Berkeley, Calif. USA: Highgate Road Social Science Research Station, 2001. xvi+155 pp.
* The Doukhobor Centenary in Canada (with John Woodsworth & Chad Gaffield).  Ottawa: Slavic Research Group and the Institute of Canadian Studies at the University of Ottawa, 2000. xvi+365 pp.
* L.N. Tolstoj i S.A. Tolstaja: Perepiska / The Tolstoys' correspondence with N.N. Strakhov.  Ottawa: Slavic Research Group at the University of Ottawa and Moscow: State L.N. Tolstoy Museum, 2000. xii+308 pp.
* Novye materialy o L.N. Tolstom iz arkhiva N.N. Guseva / New materials on L.N. Tolstoy from the N.N. Gusev archive.  Ottawa: Slavic Research Group at the University of Ottawa & Moscow: L.N. Tolstoy Museum, 2002.  xii+282 pp.
* Edinenie ljudej v tvorchestve L.N. Tolstogo / The Unity of people in Leo Tolstoy's works (with Lidia Gromova & Galina Galagan).  Ottawa: Slavic Research Group at the University of Ottawa; St-Petersburg: Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkinskij dom), Russian Academy of Sciences; Moscow: Gorky Institute of World Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2002.  x+300 pp.
* L. N. Tolstoj i N.N. Strakhov: polnoe sobranie perepiski / L.N. Tolstoy and N.N. Strakhov: complete correspondence.  Ottawa: Slavic Research Group at the University of Ottawa & Moscow: L.N. Tolstoy Museum, 2003.  2 vols., lxx + 1050 pp.
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* "Proverbs in Tolstoy's Power of darkness".  In Kevin McKenna, ed., Proverbs in Russian Literature.  Burlington, USA: University of Vermont, 1998.  Pp. 61-75.
* "Zapiski S.L. Tolstogo o ego puteshestvii s dukhobortsami v Kanadu" [S.L. Tolstoy's notes on his journey with the Doukhobors to Canada].  In Mir filologii.  Moscow: Nasledie, 2000.  Pp. 307-19.
* Foreword to: Koozma J. Tarasoff, Spirit-Wrestlers: Doukhobor pioneer strategies for living.  Ottawa: Legas, 2002.  Pp. ix-x.
* "Peter V. Verigin".  In Dictionary of Canadian biography, Vol 15, 2005 (in press).
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* "Detskaja mudrost' L.N. Tolstogo" [L.N. Tolstoy's The Wisdom of children].  Russkaja rech', 1998. 28 pp.
* "Tolstoy, Tolstoyans and the Doukhobors". Russian Literature 53:4 (1998).  Pp. 431-55.
* "N.N. Strakhov's correspondence with L.N. Tolstoy (1894-1896)".  Tolstoy Studies Journal 11 (1999).  Pp. 72-108.
* "New materials on Leo Tolstoy".Tolstoy Studies Journal 14 (2002).  Pp. 62-90.
* "Leo Tolstoy and Mikhail Novikov: Selected letters from the Moscow State L.N. Tolstoy Museum archives". Tolstoy Studies Journal 16 (2004).  Pp. 55-77.
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* "Research centres within universities".  Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Slavists (CAS), Ottawa, June 1998.
* Several papers on the Canadian Doukhobors (in Russian).  Moscow, summer 2000.
* "On the literary-historical significance of Leo and Sophia Tolstoyís correspondence with Nikolaj Strakhov". Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 2001 (in Russian).
* "The cultural contribution of Russian immigration to Canada".  Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Moscow, 2001 (in Russian).
* Series of six lectures on the personal & literary relationship between Tolstoy and Strakhov.  Institute of World Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 2002
* "Russkie v Kanade" [Russians in Canada].  Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), June 2002.
*"Tolstoy and the Canadian Doukhobors".  Yasnaya Polyana, 2005.
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